Stapled mattress and upholstery pad



Feb. 26, 1935. s. 1 BURNS I STAPLED MATTRESS AND UPHOLS I'ERY PAD Filed Sept. 28, 31

INVENTOR/ R 3M 44; ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 26, 1935 UNITED STATES STAPLED UPHOLSTERY Sheldon L. Burns, Hamilton, Ohio Application September 28, 1931, Serial No. 565,422

1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in stapled mattress and upholstery pads.

' It is one of the principal objects of my invention to provide for mattresses and the upholstery of furniture and automobiles and the like, a pad made by stapling a soft fibrous material such as cotton batting to a coarse fibrous material such as burlap. Such a pad makes for a smooth and attractive surface, with no tufts to collect dirt,

lint or other foreign particles.

My stapled pad when embodied in a mattress, for example, leaves no bulges, grooves or knotty places, it saves an enormous amount of labor in 5 making the mattress and. makes for sanitation. It also enables any amount of soft fibrous material such as cotton batting to be securely and firmly fastened to burlap or other coarse fiber material.

My stapled pad is well adapted for use at the top and bottom of the inner-springs in the making of inner spring mattresses, contributing materially to the attractiveness, efficiency and economy of their production. It is equally adaptable for upholstering purposes in automobiles, furniture and kindred objects.

Other important and incidental objects will be brought out in the following specification and particularly set forth in the subjoined claim.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my pad comprising cotton batting stapled to burlap. Figure 2 is a perspective view of a mattress broken away to show the inner springs between my top and bottom stapled pads. And Figure 3 is a longitudinal, sectional view taken through a portion of one of my pads, showing one of the staples for securing the cotton batting to the burlap.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention, the numeral 1 in Figures 1 and 3 designates a rectangular strip of burlap to which a rectangular piece of cotton batting 2 is secured in any suitable manner by staples such as the wire staple 3. The piece of cotton batting being preferably of less area than the strip of burlap to which it is stapled, the latter projects outwardly a suflicient distance to leave a marginal edge 4 around'the cotton batting for a purpose to be hereinafter explained.

The stapled pad which has just been described presents a smooth and attractive surface, it has no tufts to collect dirt,,lint or other foreign particles and may be made quite economically.

Its particular adaptation to a mattress is illustrated in Figure 2 wherein two of the stapled pads like that which I have just described are employed. The lower pad, which is designated by the numeral 5 and the top pad, which is designated by the numeral 6, have interposed between their oppositely disposed cotton batting faces the conventional inner mattress springs 7. By turning in and stitching together the marginal edge portions 4 of the burlap strips 1, 1 of the respective pads 5 and 6, the springs 7 are completely enclosed. A slip cover 8 open at one end is then slipped over the connected pads which enclose the spring unit. The resulting mattress is smooth and attractive in appearance, and is without tufts to collect dirt, lint and oth'er foreign particles. It is also extremely resilient, since a larger amount of cotton may be stapled to the burlap strips than could be secured thereto by stitching.

Having described my invention, I claim:

A pad enclosure for a helical spring unit, which consists of two pads enclosing said unit without physical connection to it, each pad consisting of a piece of cotton batting stapled to a strip of coarse fibrous material, and a slip-on cover enclosing said pads and springs.

SHELDON L. BURNS. 

